The previous chapter focused upon two methods whereby Woolf introduces ideas which are of particular interest to her into The Voyage Out, whilst avoiding overt didacticism. I took as my examples her interest in feminism and her belief in an inherent pattern in experience, suggesting that the former is dramatised in the novel through the lives of her fictional characters, whilst the latter is
... [Show full abstract] illustrated through the novel’s underlying pattern of repetitions. Repetition in the novel also serves to draw attention obliquely to a number of ideas which are of importance to Woolf. The present chapter traces a similar narrative method in Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day.1